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Mabel Dodge Luhan, veteran salon-keeper and genius-collector, strangely silent after years of holding nothing back in volume after volume of Intimate Memories, was merely busy writing about her neighbors again. Out next fortnight: Taos and Its Artists. Four-times-married Mrs. Luhan, 68, still married to Pueblo Indian Tony after 24 years, talked to a reporter about domesticity and the Gadget Age. Marriage? "I have not analyzed it much for the last 30 years, but it is wonderful. It is a pleasure." Modern times? "If more machinery would break down, sort of gradually, we would all be better...
Although the Keeper of the Privy Purse had pruned Mahon's verse-a member of the Royal Family must not be named in anything that can be exploited commercially-it was still a comely tribute to Lilibet. Sample...
...medical schools' plea was backed up last week by the keeper of one of the chief U.S. medical moneybags-Raymond B. Fosdick, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. In his annual report, Fosdick observed that medicine's philanthropists have been giving too much of their money for "magic-wand" research, too little for training physicians. Said he: "We cannot grow orchids in a greenhouse that lacks coal...
...tavern keeper is convinced that white and colored persons cannot sit side-by-side in a barroom without running amok, let him learn that his patrons do not share this feeling. Let him learn that sound business practices do not run counter to the type of idealism that gathers all races together in a Harvard classroom, on a Harvard athletic field, and in a Harvard House. If he is worried about fights, let him learn that the real fight comes not when students sit down to drink, but when a student cannot feel the freedom of joining his friends...
Long Shot. In London, Ranee, a female elephant at the zoo, felt a cold-in-the-trunk coming on, was dosed by her keeper with a pint...